It seems like you didn't listen to me. As I pointed out, I was not suggesting changes like changing car lanes to bus lanes. And the 'lets just change top leve

It seems like you didn't listen to me. As I pointed out, I was not suggesting changes like changing car lanes to bus lanes. And the 'lets just change top level highly visible regulation' without actually addressing the underlying infrastructure are what I am talking about. > Drivers do not care about throughput There are places where they removed red lights and put stop signs. People complained. Then the reversed it, guess what, people complained even more so they revered it again. People don't know what they want, they will simply complain about changes if you actually ask them. So, the solution just do systematic infrastructure changes bit by bit, without any grand top level political retric. Instead of top level 'all speed limits are now different' you go road by road, reducing it where it makes the most sense with the least amount of resistance. If anybody complains, just reverse it. This intersection is no longer with a red light. That's much harder to organize against. Most places will not organize a political revolution because one local intersection is different, and then 1 year later another one, and so on. Again there is so much low hanging fruit. Like putting red lights on the sides, where pedestrians are rather then on top. There is not gone be a political movement against that, but it improves safety for pedestrians quite a bit. In places where you have cycling gutters, and parking you can swap them, moving cycling inside the parking. Again, no removing car lanes. You can turn 4-lane roads into a 3-lane with turn lane. Same threwput. You can even claim you are doing this to increase the amount of parking. They managed to do this even in Oklahoma maybe the most unsafe and pro car city in the US. You can narrow lanes and turn parallel parking into angled parking, again this isn't an 'anti-car' move. More parking, and no more parallel parking. What a win for car owners. The list goes on, those are low hanging fruit that not gone cause a political revolution. Again, my point here is that even if you are pro-car, US is terrible in both safety, threwput and cost. Even by their own currently existing requirements they are doing a terrible job. Often there isn't a need to even change any political rules, simply the road department has to do a better job. > multi-decade concerted effort to actually tackle the problem. You can do much of that by slightly changing the standards and doing it bit by bit when re-stripping roads and doing other work. If you want to change the big stuff, yes, that's going to be more political.